K100E. Dangerous tales. .22.23.26.28.29.33.34.

Fairy tales act like separate characters: they usually try to harm people by believing that someone treats them without due respect. Cf. L94d motif, "A Tale with a Tail".

Kaya, Khmu, Nepali, Baiga, Agaria, Kannada, Koreans, Ukrainians (Poltava), Belarusians, Ingush, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Tuvans, South Altai Tuvans, Buryats, (Teleuts, Khakas).

Burma - Indochina. Kaya [the king allows the princess to choose her groom herself; she goes from house to house, throws up her handkerchief; where he floats in the air, there is the groom; the handkerchief soared near the poor hut; the princess gave the young man a precious ring; he said that he saw such stones in the forest, led to diamonds; the king gathers everyone to hunt; the princess does not tell her husband to overtake the king; made porridge out of beans, made a hat from it - if the husband is hungry, let him bite off; the king was hungry and exchanged his gold hat for a bean; lay down and asked for a massage, promising to tell stories; he was known as wonderful as a storyteller, the spirits gathered to listen; but the king fell asleep without saying anything; the spirits were offended and cursed: let a broken branch fall on the king's head on the way home; if it does not hurt, the bridge has collapsed; the staircase in the palace will collapse; the doors will be crushed; a snake will sting in bed; the princess's husband overheard this, jumps with the king, they have time to slip through before the branch falls, etc.; he kills the snake in beds; the king promised the princess to a young man, but she said they were already married]: Zapadova 1977:327-330; ahem [an orphan serves the ruler; he tells him to give a massage, promises to tell a fairy tale (old tale), but falls asleep and says nothing; the spirits hear it; the next night the story repeats itself; the spirits believe that the ruler is unfair to the orphan and are going to destroy him when he comes to at the city gate - they will slam shut and crush him; the orphan hears this; when the ruler arrived at the gate, the orphan hit his horse with a whip, which slipped through before the gate slammed shut; next time the spirits are going to bring down a banyan branch on the ruler; the orphan again whipped the ruler's horse, the branch fell behind him; for the third time, the spirits plan to let boas; the ruler wonders why the orphan is sharpening his sword; three boa constrictors go down to the room to eat the ruler and his wife, an orphan kills them; a drop of blood splashed on the chest of the ruler's wife; the orphan decides to lick the blood with his tongue, the ruler accuses him of assassination attempt on his wife; leads to a judge; an orphan tells everything, accusing the ruler of dishonesty (he did not say anything, only promised); the orphan made the ruler's wife]: Lindell et al. 1978, No. 13: 108-111.

South Asia. Nepali [every evening the king falls asleep without hearing the fairy tale; the goddess of fairy tales appears to the minister in a dream, telling him to listen to the end; the king falls asleep again; the goddess in a dream tells the Minister that he will kill the king: he will put a needle in his food; if the king does not swallow it, a tree will fall on him while hunting; if he is alive again, the goddess will let him in a poisonous snake; and if the minister speaks, he will turn into a stone; the minister finds a needle in food, manages to push the king away before a huge branch falls on him; kills a snake in the bedroom, a drop of blood fell on the queen's cheek, the minister reached out to brush it off, the king woke up and told the minister to hang; he told everything, became petrified; the king no longer listened to fairy tales, and when he listened, to the end]: Sakya, Griffith 1980:25-27; baiga [after dinner, the farmhand asks A gonda peasant to tell a fairy tale; he is too lazy, he goes to sleep; the farmhand sees and hears how four tales came out of the womb of the gonda and decided to kill him, since he is too lazy to tell them; first: when the gonds come to his son , the first sip of food will turn into needles, it will swallow it and die; the second: I will become a tree, I will fall on it; the third: I will become a snake, I will bite it; fourth: I will find water when it crosses the river, it is his washes away; the servant snatches the food, tells him to run quickly past the tree, kills the snake, pulls the owner out of the water; he demands to tell us what is going on, the servant is petrified; the daughter-in-law Gonda threw her stone against this stone the child, the farmhand came to life; but the gonde drove him away; so "do not trust the gonda, the woman and the dream"]: Elwin 1944, No. XIII.1:302-303 (Zograf translation 1971, No. 28:128-130); agaria [Raja promises so much money how much he weighs to whoever makes him laugh; the crooked and lame man knew that the sadhu knew many stories, asked him to tell, but the sadhu drove him away; the man fell asleep in the forest; four lived inside the sadhu stories; one heals blindness, the other cures lameness, the third makes you laugh, the fourth makes you cry; in a dream, a person is healed, but has forgotten the words of three stories, remembering only those that make you laugh ("connections above , hit below"), so he woke up, crooked and lame again; the Raja laughed at the words of the man, but asked him to tell the whole story; he said: when he left, the jealous Raja tied his wife by the hair to the beam; his friend measured her genitals with his fingers; the Raja gave the crooked lame man the promised reward]: Elwin 1944, No. XIII.2:303-304; kannada [the woman knew the fairy tale and the song, but did not tell or sing to anyone; when she was sleeping, the fairy tale popped out, took the form of a pair of shoes on the veranda, and the song looked like a piece of clothing (a coat) and hung on a hanger; her husband came and asked whose shoes and clothes they were; it began a quarrel and the husband went to bed in the temple of God the Monkey; at night, lamps from all over the city met there; one came later and said that his wife and husband had a quarrel in his house in the evening (talked about a fairy tale and a song); husband I overheard it, went back to my wife in the morning, told it himself; but my wife forgot both the fairy tale and the song, so she could not understand what I was talking about]: Ramanujan 1997, No. 1:1-2.

China - Korea. Koreans: Cho 2001, No. 111 [the boy loves stories but keeps notes in pumpkins hung on the wall; grows up, prepares for the wedding; the servant hears stories preparing to kill the young man; promise turn into various objects that death will bring contact with; a stream (if a young man drinks from it, he dies), berries by the road (dies if he eats), a sword on the wall (falls on the young man's neck during weddings); the servant drives the horse without letting him drink or eat; pushes the groom away when the sword falls; does not allow stories to be burned, but advises them to be printed out so that everyone knows]: 212-214; ZÄ…ng 1952, 68 [approximately as in Cho 2001]: 154-156; Park 1991 [about the same; after entering the owner's marriage, he kills a snake]: 212-215.

Central Europe. Ukrainians (Poltava), Belarusians [A faithful servant saves his master from revenge on three carols (fairy tales): the master, telling fairy tales on Christmas night, falls asleep; his servant overhears under the window, a conversation between three carols who decided to destroy a storyteller who fell asleep; further as in fairy tales like 516 (Faithful Servant)]: SUS 1979, No. 516*: 148.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Ingush [brother got married, called spinners, spinners and sister asked him to tell a fairy tale, he refused, went to bed; his sister looked at him and saw three spirits condemning him for refusing tell a fairy tale; the first will send him tomorrow to his aunt for a fur coat, become a hound, bite him, he will die; the second will become a snake, crawl into the left sleeve of his fur coat, bite when a person tries to wear it; third: who heard and told, petrified; sister went with her brother, killed the hound with scissors; cut off the left sleeve of the fur coat; brother tells me to explain, sister told me petrified; brother lay down by the stone; in a dream he heard: kill your son , a stone in his blood fields, his sister will come to life; his wife held the child herself, her husband slaughtered, his sister came to life; when they returned home, they were met by a revived child]: Malsagov 1983, No. 36:159-160 (= Tankieva 2003, No. 13-14).

Turkestan. Kazakhs (Atbasar district, northern central Kazakhstan) [it is a custom to tell each other fairy tales on the night of the wedding, before the bride and groom return to their parents' mail; the groom refuses tell, everyone is dissatisfied; the bride's sister thinks that now the groom is telling stories to the bride; goes to the yurt to listen and sees two spirits; the fairy tale of insects promises to be a stream, the groom gets drunk, will turn into an insect; the fairy tale of weapons promises to be a golden knife, the groom will cut himself, turn into a knife himself; in the morning, his wife's sister was the first to jump to the stream, spoiled the water; broke the knife; everything told the groom's father, she was gifted]: Barzhaksin 1916 (=Sidelnikov 1962:159, =1971 (2): 139-141).

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Tuvans (Ulug-Khemsky District; several options) [the eldest daughter and her husband came to visit the elderly and younger sister; the son-in-law knows three fairy tales, but does not want to tell; the younger visionary sister sees how the spirits who host three fairy tales sit on the doorstep and argue with whom to start; without waiting for the story, they promise to turn into a bow, arrow and knife in their son-in-law's way; and if the one who sees and hears us warns , then let it turn into a stone sculpture; the girl goes with her older sister and son-in-law; when she sees the bow, she tears the bowstring; the arrow breaks the tip; the knife breaks; the girl was beaten, the houses began to be tortured with work; they arrived father and mother, they also scold; she grabbed the goat's tail and told me everything, the goat was petrified; the girl is thanked]: Samdan 1994, No. 4:271-275; Tuvans (Uriankhai) [Khan's son and son of Noyon went travel; Noyon's son knew the languages of birds and animals; hears a conversation between a crow and a crow on a golden poplar; let the Khan's son take Shurindyn-Khatyn, daughter of Tolindyn Khan; to do this, make a cart and get it peacock; she will go out to see; Noyon's son learned blacksmithing and then carpentry, and Khan's son could not learn carpentry; Noyon's son had a piece of paper, he used it to turn wood into gold and silver; they took the girl away; the same crows: three pairs of boots, three fur coats, three saddled horses will come across on the way - you can't take it, sit down; then Abyrga-moga will be 10 fathoms away; Noyon's son cut everything; a drop the snake fell on S.'s face, Noyon's son wanted to lick it, the khan's son thought he was trying to kiss his wife; Noyon's son was offended and turned into stone; S. held the cup to drip alive from the sky water; tired, asked her husband, he fell asleep, spilled; a drop revived Noyon's son, but he lost his abilities; if there was a second straw, people would have knowledge]: Potanin 1983, No. 162:542-544; South Altai Tuvans [a good storyteller married a khan's daughter, but refused to tell stories on his wedding day; in the evening he sent the boy to an empty yurt for a forgotten knife; he overheard three people talking strangers; for refusing to tell stories, the lords of knowledge will kill him; one will cause a thunderstorm; the other will throw a piece of rock on his bed; the third will knock down a tree on the bed; whoever tells him about it the water will take away; the next morning the boy tells everything, claiming that the black lamb told it all; immediately the ground opened and the stream of water carried away the lamb]: Taube 1994, No. 18:186-187; Buryats ( Aginsky district, Chita region) [one hunter knew many fairy tales, another saw spirits; asked the first to tell fairy tales; saw spirits gathering from everywhere; one old woman sat on the storyteller's nose, and then fell on those sitting on on his knees; the ghost seer laughed, the storyteller was offended and fell silent; the spirits began to think who they should punish; the next day, the laughing man killed a kulan while hunting; his mistress was that old woman]: Barannikova et al. 1993, No. 16:219-221.